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[[File:mordor2.png|frame|A Polluted Wasteland [[
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Compare [[Forbidden Zone]], [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]], [[Nightmarish Factory]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In ''[[Firefly]]'', Earth has become uninhabitable and is now called "Earth-That-Was". In addition, much the same thing happened to Mal's homeworld, Shadow, at the hands of the Alliance during the Unification War.
** [[Ace Pilot|Wash]]'s homeworld is described as being so thick with air pollution that he became a pilot just to see what all those stars were that all the songs kept referring to.
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** The mining colony Androzani Minor in the "The Caves of Androzani". Absolutely everyone on it was trying to kill everyone else, and a fatally poisoned Doctor had to regenerate just to get his companion away in one piece.
** The planet Skaro, as depicted in "Genesis of the Daleks" and several Expanded Universe media, thanks to a centuries-long war of attrition involving nuclear and chemical weapons. And that was ''before'' the Daleks came into the picture.
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* Until the 1960s, [[Pittsburgh]], thanks to industrial pollution, was known for its [[Mordor]]-y combination of fire-belching furnaces and smokestacks; air so black with soot that the sky could not be seen in mid-day in photographs, and all the lights had to be on all the time; and water quality capable of petrifying wooden boats into iridescent chunks of iron oxide. It's since gotten much better, though, to the point where it's recently been ranked as one of the cleanest and most livable cities in America.
* [[Ridley Scott]] claimed that the smoke-belching urban hellscape of [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] Los Angeles in ''[[Blade Runner]]'' was based on his hometown of Middlesbrough.
* The city of Norilsk in Siberia definitely qualifies. According to the Blacksmith Institute, it's one of the top 10 most polluted cities on earth due to a huge concentration of nickel mines and smelters nearby. According to our friends at [[The Other Wiki]], there's not a ''single tree'' within 48 kilometers of one smelter. [
* Ruhr Valley, Germany, throughout the late-19th and 20th centuries. The River Rhine was said to be polluted enough to be able to develop photographs in it. Add in the coalmining, steel industry and chemical industry and the result was a Polluted Wasteland.
* Many of Britain's industrial cities have some similarities with this trope. Even in the Victorian Era, Blake referred "the dark Satanic mills". The region around Birmingham was (and still is) literally known as "the Black Country", although the area is much cleaner today. Incidentally, Tolkien grew up in this area; many scholars think [[Mordor]] at least in part inspired by the polluted industrial desolation (which leads to a long-time [[Wild Mass Guess]] that the ''Ring'' saga is an allegorical [[Green Aesop]] or an [[Ludd Was Right|anti-technology rant]]).
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